Practising via manga

[richvh]

I did a little fixup in Gimp to show how the periods and ellipses should appear (though actually the ellipses I see in manga are three dots in the space of one character: this: … (but centered) rather than this: ・・・)

In vertical text, the period and comma are placed in the top right corner of the kanji box, rather than the bottom left corner.

[Yudan Taiteki]

Although as I said, manga rarely uses 。 at the end of sentences. Other punctuation marks (particularly ! and ?) are common, although commas are rarely used as well.

[Gundaetiapo]

Although as I said, manga rarely uses 。 at the end of sentences. Other punctuation marks (particularly ! and ?) are common, although commas are rarely used as well.

The Ranma 1/2 manga uses 。 and 、 regularly. Must be an exceptional case.

[Yudan Taiteki]

Are you sure it uses 。? If it does, that would certainly make it unusual among the manga I have read.

[hungryhotei]

I can confirm that it does.

[richvh]

The only manga I own in Japanese, 史上最強の弟子ケンイチ, uses 。 and 、at least sometimes (though !, !!, !? and ellipses are far more common ways to end sentences.) Checking the sample chapters at http://websunday.net, Detective Conan didn't seem to have any 。 and only a few 、, but a couple of other manga I checked had occasional 。 in them.

[Sauna addict]

This time I drew a whole page. B)





Here's the translation. Please remember to correct me if/when I'm wrong.

Chibi-chan:
こうふく　して　下さい
Please surrender.

Kazuki-san:
やだ
No.

Chibi-chan:
さて・・・始めましょうか
Well then, let's begin?
あの馬鹿
That idiot...

Kazuki-san:
勝たなければ　いけない、　一輝！
You must win, kazuki! (he is speaking about himself)
はい！
Yes! (why I translated this...??)

Chibi-chan:
これはどうですか？
How about this?

Kazuki-san
まさか！？
You don't say! (I'm not sure how I should translate this one to English)

Chibi-chan
混沌の触り！！！
Touch of chaos!!! :p


Kanji used:

下(さい) - ku(dasai) - please

始(めます) - haji(memasu) - to begin

馬鹿 - baka - fool, idiot

勝(ちます) - ka(chimasu) - to win

一輝 - kazuki - one+shining (name)

混沌 - konton - chaos

触り - sawari - touch


Edit:
Changes applied, thanks guys. B)

[richvh]

こおふくしましてください>>こうふくしてください
勝ちなければ>>勝たなければ

I found this one hard to read without using the magnifier tool.

[Gundaetiapo]

I can't recall ever hearing いいえ to deny a request, but my experience is quite limited. やだ would be the more manga typical expression for "no!".

[tanuki]

始めましょお　-＞　はじめましょう

[Ninjuninju]

hmmm. i thought people usually say いやだ
because it is Iya da

[Ninjuninju]

i think manga is helping me with my kanji.. cool
I like it!

[Yudan Taiteki]

To me, やだ as a response to that sort of thing sounds feminine or childish, but that might be just me. いいえ sounds better to my ear.

[Hatori]

This is actually pretty cool. Make your own manga and put Japanese text in to help you practice... B)

[Sauna addict]

Translation:

TheGirlWithGreenHair-san
あんた！
あたしの漫画はどこの
You!
Where is my manga?

RandomMangaArtist-san
我慢してくれ
Be patient, please.

TheGirlWithGreenHair-san
遅い！
Slow!

RandomMangaArtist-san
そんな・・・
That's... (...not fair! )

Kanji:

漫画 - manga - comic

我慢 - gaman - patient

遅(い) - oso(i) - slow

苦情 - kujou - complaint, troubles, objection